There is not an evil deity in Greek mythology. Just as there is not a good one! The gods were extremely like humans in their character, they just had their main trait a bit exaggerated! Zeus was a bit too occupied with the ladies, Hera a bit too jealous etc… Now, I suppose it is not a coincidence you chose Apollo to ask about. read more
Apollo is the God of Poetry, Medicine, the Sun and telling the future. His twin is Artemis, Goddess of the moon, among other things. He did help create Pandora but he did not wrought evil or good upon the Earth. read more
Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: Ἀπόλλων, Apollōn (GEN Ἀπόλλωνος); Doric: Ἀπέλλων, Apellōn; Arcadocypriot: Ἀπείλων, Apeilōn; Aeolic: Ἄπλουν, Aploun; Latin: Apollō) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. read more